You guessed right.....that is how they got Saddam....started with the outer layer.....like peeling an onion....and worked the family connections....until they got the one guy who gave us Saddam. From what I have read we had been looking for the guy who gave us Saddam for over two months. We mounted a couple of raids to get him....but he kept evading us......until we nabbed him the Friday night before we grabbed Saddam.